The users woke up Tuesday morning to find a message on their device warning them they’ve been hacked by Oleg Pliss.

Melbourne iPad owner ‘veritylikestea’ posted to an Apple support forum that her iPad “suddenly locked itself” on Tuesday morning.

“There was a message on the screen … saying that my device(s) had been hacked by Oleg Pliss,” she told Australian Associated Press.

The message demanded she pay US$100 (AU$108.20) through PayPal for her device to be unlocked. Other users as well have woken up to noises and messages on their phones and report unhelpful service by Apple and other major telecommunication companies.

It’s unclear as to how these devices got hacked but some blame a breach of their iCloud accounts.

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